2021 NZMSA Phase 2 Assignment Repository

Introduction

You are required to complete one of the two assignments in order to pass phase 2. You can choose from

• General Software Stream
• Data Science Stream

Resources

In-person workshop

You should come to our in-person workshops where we will introduce the skills needed to complete the assignment. You should attend both day 1 and day 2 of the stream that you are interested in.

Topic	Time	Location
General Software Stream Day 1	10AM - 5PM 24th of July 2021	UoA OGGB 260-073
Data Science Stream Day 1	10AM - 5PM 25th of July 2021	UoA OGGB 260-073
General Software Stream Day 2	10AM - 5PM 31st of July 2021	UoA Eng1439 401-439
Data Science Stream Day 2	10AM - 5PM 1st of August 2021	UoA Eng1439 401-439

We will do our best to obtain a recording of the workshops, however, this is not guaranteed due to factors we can't control.

Code sample and Documentation

After the workshop, we will release the repository containing the sample code, documentation and recording links. You may find the repo use the following links. The repo will be made public after the first day of the workshop.

• General Software Stream Documentation
• Data Science Stream Documentation

Workshop Preparation

All streams will require a Microsoft Azure account. You can create an Azure for Students account.

General Software Stream Workshop Preparation

Before the workshop on Saturday, please make sure that you have completed all the items in the checklist below:

✅ Install Visual Studio Community 2019 - When installing, ensure that ASP.NET and web development is selected
✅ Register for a Microsoft Azure account - Free for students
✅ Register for a GitHub account and GIT SCM
✅ Install .NET Core 5.0 SDK
✅ Install Visual Studio Code
✅ Install Node.js with NPM

After you've completed the checklist above, please check that you can run the following commands in your command line:

npx create-react-app my-app --template typescript
cd my-app npm start

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Data Science Stream Workshop Preparation

Before the workshop on Sunday, please make sure that you have completed all the items in the checklist below:

✅ Register for Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/) and join the CommonLit Readability Prize Challenge
✅ Install Python or Anaconda
✅ Install the following libraries for Python (If you did not install Anaconda): pandas, jupyter, scikit-learn, beautifulsoup, requests, pytorch, azureml-core
✅ Register for an Azure account (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students/)
✅ Register for a GitHub Account (https://github.com/) - For hosting & storing our project.

Questions?

Please ask us on our facebook group or discord